Comments on: RV featuring Los Updates/Reboot, Baile/Caminando

By: noman

noman — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:52:11 +0000

think Ricardo shows the party animal that really is . Baile is a track that probably sound right only played by Ricardo Himself in front of a sweaty crowd .And Jorge Gonzalez is a weird character

By: Serge Rocheaux

Serge Rocheaux — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:38:45 +0000

I think Ricardo shows the party animal that really is . Baile is a track that probably sound right only played by Ricardo Himself in front of a sweaty crowd .And Jorge Gonzalez is a weird character .

By: eric cloutier

eric cloutier — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:54:31 +0000

since when has something sounding like a “preset on an old children’s casio keyboard” been a bad thing?

i meant it more in the realm of “that drum pattern sounds like one of those buttons on top of an old casio keyboard in composition.”

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:53:24 +0000

In agreement with comment #1, except for one thing: since when has something sounding like a “preset on an old children’s casio keyboard” been a bad thing?

By: rocky

rocky — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:45:05 +0000

I don’t think it’s right that Caminando goes nowhere. Certainly you can hear the warping and the latin folk thing has been done to death, but it clearly goes ’somewhere’.

By: Jordan Rothlein

Jordan Rothlein — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:44:48 +0000

@eric cloutier, while message board fanboys can be pretty terrifying, I honestly didn’t diminish my disdain to thwart their wrath and preserve my virtual safety. Like, “Baile” really isn’t terrible… it’s got a nice little groove, and things do get kind of fun near the end. I’ve been trying it out at home, and it layers sort of nicely over/under tracks that actually go somewhere. Does it take entirely too long to get there? Are the vocals ill-advised considering the arrangement? Is the sound design Ricardo-by-numbers? Absolutely and for sure and yeah, sort of. But is it awful? Not really. Ricardo lately has retreated into himself (farther than before, I guess), making music so subtly detailed that to most ears but his has crossed over into being pretty esoteric and boring. Honestly, though, I took more offense to the drastically overrated yawnfest “Vasco,” maybe because Perlon put it out. At least “Baile” is sort of fun.

By: Doozer

Doozer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:05:40 +0000

Emociones Clandestinas – Un Nuevo Baile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmYnGIlsjdk

By: James

James — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:41:14 +0000

FWIW, I think Reboot’s tricks worked really well on those records for Below and Cocoon. Not sure about this one, but it’s a winning formula.

The Villalobos track is a serious letdown, but I don’t know that it’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard from him (some of those sides on Contexterrior don’t hold up well at all) and if he were a bit more publicly prolific (i.e. if he released more tracks outside of his inner circle) it may not garner this much attention.

By: Will Lynch

Will Lynch — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:24:31 +0000

“…injects about as much post-punk, electro, and breakbeat into his rhythmic palate…”

and, of course, baille funk…

By: eric cloutier

eric cloutier — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:45:07 +0000

both tracks are absolutely horrendous. whomever said it on ra, the “spanish version of fred schneider” is so spot on its scary, not to mention that the beat sounds like its a preset on an old childrens casio keyboard.

reboot…i’ve figured him out. really, really, really, really, really well produced kickdrums, and nothing more. people are so blinded by their faces melting from his sub-frequency hits that they’re completely ignoring the fact the song a) goes nowhere, b) is just a bunch of stupid percussion loops, and c) you can hear the warping artifacts from ableton on the vocals.

i’m going to go out on a limb here and say the reviewer played the safety card as to avoid the throngs of fanboys from blowing his shit up.